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They most likely haven't been able to reverse engineer much, if anything. But I suspect a profit motive was part of keeping it secret. If everyone knows, then
by shepardrtc 3y ago
They most likely haven't been able to reverse engineer much, if anything. But I suspect a profit motive was part of keeping it secret. If everyone knows, then other companies will compete to look at the materials and the contractors could lose out on a lot of money.
- jonplackett 3y agoThis makes no sense to me. People don’t invent an amazing thing and then keep it secret to make a profit. they patent it and make a product or license it. I am totally willing to believe they managed to keep something secret. Hell if it’s true it means they actually did a pretty shit job because everyone knows the word ‘Roswell’ But I don’t buy that after 50 years they haven’t made a single useful thing out of what they found. Where’s my flying saucer damn it? Where’s some new amazing power source that any craft getting here must have been using?
- icedchai 3y agoMaybe they did make something useful from it. How would we know? Have you read "The Day After Roswell"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After_Roswell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After_Roswell (Not saying I believe any of it.)
- shepardrtc 3y agoI'm saying that they weren't able to invent anything. Maybe they learned about new materials, but it's one thing to know the molecular composition of a material and another to actually make it. So, being selfish assholes, they want to keep it a secret. Government officials are more than happy to award sole source contracts when they're offered a cushy job after retirement.